NOUN | cognition | cladistics, cladistic analysis | a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms |
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Meaning | A system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms. | |
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Synonym | cladistic analysis | |
Broader | taxonomy | (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification |
Spanish | cladística | |
Catalan | cladística |
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